A noticable improvement is shown in attendance, and the regular work
of the school has become more effective through the system and method with
which all studies are now carried on.

The Museum has been open free to the public from 2 to 5 P.M., daily,
throughout the past year, with the exception of Thanksgiving day, Christmas
day, and the Forth of July. The attendance has been over 14,000. The students
have also had the benefit of using the rooms for the purpose of study during
school hours.

The collection of autotypes illustrating the history of the Art of Painting
has been much studied and enjoyed.

There have been a number of large and important casts and several valuable
paintings added to the collection during the year, as well as many attractive
loans.

In the Mechanical Department, the work proving too much for one man,
Mr. James W. Cutler was employed as instructor in algebra, geometry, and
trigonemitry, while Mr. W.W. Estes gave his whole attention to machine
design and engineering.

The instruction, in design this year was based on a series of lectures--those
on Elementary Design and the Orders by Mr. Stacy Tolman, and those on Applied
Design by Mr. Theodore H. Pond. Each lecture was followed with class work.
The plan succeeded, as the prize composition at the end of the course bore
witness.

The designs in clay in Mr. Kohlhagen's class have exceeded expectations
and show the possibilities in this line with earnest students under careful
instruction.

The drawing rooms have been greatly improved during the year by changes
to the windows and skylights.

A most important addition to the school will be the proposed extension
in the rear for a fireproof picture and sculpture gallery.

This building is being carefully designed on the most modern principles,
and on account of its protection against fire, and its perfect lighting,
is expected to be the centre of all the importsnt exhibitions in this locality.

A most encouraging sign of the growing importance of the school is the
demand upon it for designs by parties not connected with the school, but
who recognize the quality of the work now being done there.

A most interesting competition for designs for a cash register was lately
held for prizes offered by the manufacturers.

The State of Rhode Island has asked for designs for a monument to be
erected in memory of John Waterman at Valley Forge and to commemorate the
past of the State in the Revolution.

The Jewelers' Association is greatly aiding the school in its progress
of improvement, especially by its frequent social meetings and course of
lectures, and plainly shows the growint strength of the school, and the
interest in it of those who have received benefits from it.

Respectfully submitted,

Mrs. GUSTAVE RADEKE,

EDWARD I. NICKERSON,

THOMAS B. STOCKWELL,

HOWARD HOPPIN, Secretary.

Board of Management

PROVIDENCE, DEC. 31, 1895.

REPORTS

OF THE

STATE REFORM SCHOOLS,

FOR THE

YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31,

1895

UNDER THE CARE OF

THE BOARD OF STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS

___________________________

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD

FRANK F.OLNEY,

Providence,

J. C. B. WOODS,

Providence

WALTER A. READ,

Chepachet

GEORGE W. CUTTER,

Newport

ELLERY H. WILSON,

East Providence

GEORGE L. SMITH

Nayatt,

PHINEAS O. LITTLEFIELD

Narragansett pier.

GEORGE B. WATERHOUSE,

Centreville,

CHARLES H. PECKHAM, (ex-officio)

Providence,

ORGANIZATION,

__________

J. C. B. WOODS,

Chairman

CHARLES H. PECKHAM,

Secretary,

___________

Mrs. M. F. HOPKINS,

Superintendent Oak Lawn School.

JAMES H. EASTMAN,

Superintendent Sockanossett School,

P.O., HOWARD, R.I.

REPORT

OF THE

OAK LAWN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.

REPORT.

__________

The statistics of the year are as follows;

Remaining in the School January 1, 1895

31

Committed by the Courts during the year

16

Admitted by the Board of State Charities and
Corrections

2

Returned from places

2

Returned from State Almshouse

1

Escaped inmates returned

2

23

54

Discharged to go to State Almshouse

6

Removed to Workhouse and Hoouse of Correction

3

Discharged on probation

16

Escaped

3

28

Remaining in the School January 1, 1896

26

Average number in 1882

(six months)

22

"
" " 1883

"

31

"
" " 1884

"

39

"
" " 1885

(daily average)

35

"
" " 1886

"

25

"
" " 1887

"

30

"
" " 1888

"

34

"
" " 1889

"

37.5

"
" " 1890

"

33

"
" " 1891

"

28.7

"
" " 1892

"

29.9

"
" " 1893

"

21.9

"
" " 1894

"

26.3

"
" " 1895

"

26.6

The number of girls received at the School in 1895 was eighteen. In
1894 the number was 34, while in 1893 it was only twelve. So the numbers
vary from year to year without apparent cause. Eight were sentenced for
being idle and disorderly persons, three for being lewd and wanton, two
for vagrancy, two for truancey, and one for assault. The ages were: one,
eight years; two, nine; one, thirteen; five, fourteen; one, fifteen; six,
sixteen; one, seventeen; and one, ninteen (age stated in court, seventeen.)

Sixteen of the girls were released on probation to go to their own homes
or to live with other families. It is gratifying to be able to report that
only two of the sixteen have been returned to the school. Mr. Nutting,
the religious instructor of the Institutions, has continued, as before,
to examine the homes of applicants for girls before action is taken by
the Board, and also, so far as he has been able to do so, to visit the
girls of the school who have been placed in families. The Board have authorized
the employment of an officer whose duty will be to give more time and attention
to this work at both the schools than Mr. Nutting with his many duties
has been able to give. The proposition so to amend the law that no child
over sixteen years old could be sentenced to the Reform School would be
of best benefit to the Oak Lawn School, as has been explained in previous
reports.

Expenses of Mr. Nutting visiting
girls placed in families, and visiting families before placing girls with
them

36.22

Miscellaneous

50.68

$4,709.56

Mrs. M. F. Hopkins,

Superintendent.

REPORT

OF THE

SOCKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.

REPORT

______________

The number of boys in the school at the close of 1895 was 265, an increase
of twenty-three during the year. The daily average during the year was
249. The number received in 1895 (196) was but six larger than in 1894,
but the number discharged in 1894 (173) was twenty-three smaller than 1895.
It would appear then that the increase in the number in the school at the
close of 1895 was due more largely to a smaller number of discharges during
the year than to the increased number of admissions.

The new home for the boys described in the last report had been nearly
completed at the close of 1894. It was finished during the spring and early
summer of the past year and was occupied in July by fifty of the smallest
boys. It is called the "Primary Home" and is the third one erected since
the removal of the School from Providence in 1882. Only two "homes," as
the boys dwellings are called, were provided at the time of the removal
and there are now five.

The building for industrial training shops and drill hall was also unfinished
when the last report was made. This has been completed, except the foundry,
and the building will soon be used for it's intended purposes,-as a drill
hall in the upper, and for industrial education in the lower, story. Masons'
work and foundry work will be taught here.

INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

The average number of boys employed in the different departments during
the year was as follows:

In the carpenters' shop

8

In the blacksmith's shop

16

In the masons' shop

12

In the machine shop

8

In the engineers' department (boiler and engine-room)

5

In the printing office

14

In the shoe shop

9

In the tailors' shop

12

The boys of the department of carpentering, with their instructor, finished
the woodwork of the new industrial training shops and drill hall, besides
doing much repairing about the school and such machine work as was required
at the other Institutions, that is, turning; machine-planing, etc. Two
of these boys were discharged, having acquired sufficient knowledge of
their trade to secure work, and are doing well.

Instruction has been continued, as before, in the blacksmiths' shop
in forging; making, dressing and tempering tools for the machine shop;
repairing picks and crow-bars; making and repairing chains; turning shoes
for horses and oxen and shoeing the horses and oxen used at the school;
making and repairing tools for stone work and for the masons, and sharpening
stone drills for the other Institutions. Ten boys were discharged from
this department during the year, some of them after only a few months of
instruction, which is too soon for their own good. Instruction for so short
a period can be of little benefit to boys. They should have at least two
years' instruction and experience in this department to enable them to
obtain work and support themselves at their trades after their discharge.

The boys, twelve in number, who have been learning the masons' trade,
were especially proficient and useful during the year. The work done by
them includes laying 276 square yards of cement floor in the new "Primary
Home" and plastering the walls and window jams of the same, about 200 square
yards; building of stone and brick the conduits for the steam pipes; building
four manholes for these conduits, also two sewer manholes at the Oak Lawn
School; preparing a room in one of the basements of the Asylum for the
Insane for the temporary safe-keeping of the dead, besides some repairing
at the same institution; and laying a new cement floor and making other
improvements in the piggery of their own school. Three pupils were discharged
from this department of industrial training in 1895, all of whom were well
advanced in the masons' trade, and one was discharged who had served as
a masons' tender.

The boys under instruction in the machine shop made a Ross water motor,
No. 28, to furnish power for blowing the new organ at the Asylum for the
Insane, the drawings for the motor having been kindly furnished free of
cost by the Ross Valve Co., of Troy, N.Y.; two five inch and two two-and-one-half-inch
expansion joints for the steam pipes in the conduit above mentioned; an
emery wheel stand with a twist-drill grinding attachment; and a douche
bath for the new "Primary Home." They also made all the tools used by themselves
and did a good deal of repairing of machinery and tools for the other institutions
as well as for the school. One of the items of work for the school was
the repairing and polishing of the two hundred and fifty Quaker muskets
of the military battalion. Six boys were graduated from this department
well skilled in the mechanists' trade and they are doing well.

The pupils in the engineers' department, so-called, receive instruction
and assist in tending the steam boilers, the steam engine, the steam pumps
and other apparatus in the boiler and engine rooms. They also learn in
a measure the trade of piping, that is, running lines of pipe for conveying
steam, water or gas, as the case may be, with the necessary valves , etc.
These pupils assist the engineer, too, in making the necessary repairs
upon pipes and kindred apparatus throughout the school. No boy was graduated
from this department in 1895.

From the printing office has been issued regularly during the year the
HOWARD TIMES, the semi-monthly school paper, and all of the job work for
the offices of the Board, and other institutions, such as blanks for reports
of many kinds, ect., has been done here. The boys of the printing office
also set up and printed as in previous years, the last report of the Board
of State Charities and Corrections to the General Assembly and are now,
as we write, engaged upon this report. Seven boys were discharged from
the printing office competent to earn their living as compositors.

In the shoe shop, 2,575 pairs of shoes were repaired during the year;
this number included, of course, the repairing of the same pair of shoes
several times. Each boy has two pairs of shoes in wear and each week one
of these pairs is sent to the shop for inspection and repairs if needed.
The boys in this shop repair also harnesses, footballs, and baseballs.

The twelve boys under the instruction of the tailoress make up and repair
all of the clothing of the boys and the bedding and table linen of both
officers and boys.

The trade of painting is one that can not well be taught except as opportunity
for its practical application occurs, which is not continuous. The quantity
of material that would be required to keep a class in constant practice
would cost a good deal of money and the material cannot be used over and
over again as in other trades. During the past year, however, there was
ample opportunity for the teaching of painting. The Primary Home was painted
inside and outside by a class of boys under the direction of one hired
painter and the hard oil finish within the building was applied also by
them. Besides, some of the smaller boys were made useful in dressing and
waxing the floors. A good deal of painting repairs about the buildings
also was done by the boys.

The farm and garden work is done by such of the boys as are not large
enough, or are otherwise incapacitated, for instruction in the industrial
training shops. Five of the larger boys do the work in the barn assisted
during the day, but not in early morning or late evening, by several smaller
ones.

The following table shows the quantities of farm and garden produce
raised at the school by the boys;

Apples, (hand picked)

65 bbls.

Lettuce

30 bush

"
(windfalls)

70 bbls.

Melons, musk

800

Beans, shell

40 bush.

Melons, water

85

Beans, string

80 bush.

Milk

78,728 qts.

Beef

672 lbs.

Onions

90 bush.

Beets

260 bush.

Pears

18 bush.

Cabbage

5,000 heads

Peas

56 bush.

Carrots

440 bush.

Potatoes

273 bush.

Chickens

66 lbs

Pork

1,395 lbs.

Corn

60 bush.

Pumpkins

4 tons.

Corn, pop

17 bush.

Rye straw

2 tons.

Corn, sweet

1,260 doz

Squash, summer

30 doz

Cucumbers

30 bush.

Squash, winter

140 doz.

Eggs

131 doz.

Turnips

285 bush.

Grapes

22 bush.

Veal

1,137 lbs

Hay

6 tons.

Two notable events in the history of the school the past year are worthy
of record. The first is the part of our school battalion took in the Forth
of July parade in the City of Providence, a privilege granted them by consent
of the Board of State Charities and Corrections. The invitation had been
extended by His Honor the Mayor, Frank F. Olney, and the City Government.
The battalion made a fine appearance and was a notable feature in the procession.
All along the rout the cadets were cheered and praised for their soldierly
bearing. At the end of the five miles' march, His Honor, the Mayor, entertained
them in a sumptuous manner with a banquet in Music Hall.

By consent of the Board of State Charities and Corrections also, we
were enabled to accept an invitation extended to us by the managers of
the State Fair to take space in the Educational Department of their exhibition
in the month of September. The space allowed us was sufficient for quite
a practical illustration to the many thousands of visitors to that Fair
of how the boys are being trained. The work of the schoolroom was illustrated
by maps submitted, together with compositions, arithmetical problems, quarterly
examination papers, ect. There were boys there each day working at the
case, setting type; at the forge, forging hammers, turning shoes, etc;
at the machine, learning the lesson of thread-cutting; boys at their carpenters'
bench, learning to mitre; brick masons, building piers and foundations
for bay windows; with a display of the finished products of their labor
in the several departments of the school arranged in glass cases and upon
tables in such a way that the people could best see them. It all made a
most interesting exhibit, and was commended on every hand. The great interest
in our exhibition there was fully manifested by the crowds constantly pressing
up to the boys while at their work. The Fair Association have been pleased
to award us a very handsome diploma.

During the course of these two events not one single untoward circumstance
happened. The cadets without exception conducted themselves in a most soldierly
and gentlemanly manner, reflecting credit upon themselves, the school,
and the State.

REGULAR SCHOOL WORK.

Throughout the year the schools have been in session three hours each
day, five days in the week, except two weeks in summer. In the Primary
Cottage the small boys have two sessions, one of two hours in the morning
and one of three in the afternoon.

The schools are so arranged that in each cottage there are five grades;
all boys in a grade are required to cover the same ground each quarter.
Quarterly examinations are given, and upon a boy's standing in these examinations,
together with his class work, general conduct and military record, depends
his time of parole.

We are using the Normal Course in reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic.
The highest classes use Information Readers No. III, and for supplementary
reading, Harper's Round Table, Youth's Companion, and St. Nicholas. One
hour each week is devoted to physiology. The lessons are given by the teacher
with special reference to the effect of alcohol, cigarettes and tobacco
on the human system. We are using Potter's Elementary and Advanced Geographies.
I would recommend that we change Potter's Geographies for Frye's elementary
and Complete Geographies. One session each week is devoted to United States
History, composition, and talks on civil government and current events.

Many of the boys take much interest in Nature Study, watching eagerly
the growth of the plant from the seed, the development of the insect from
the chrysalis, or hunting carefully for specimens of rocks and fossils.
Each school keeps a record of the weather, temperature, wind, and clouds.
The higher classes do considerable work in map drawing. By means of committing
to memory short extracts from the best authors, talks on character building,
and the study of the writings and lives of eminent men, our teachers try
to instill into the boys a love of good books, and higher and nobler ideals
of living.

Once in three months a blank is sent to each boy released from the school
on probation, whose term of sentence has not expired. The purpose of doing
this will be readily learned from a copy of the blank.

GENTLEMEN:--The board of Control of the State Home and School have the
honor to report the following for the year of 1895.

The year has been eventful for increased work, both thorough and successful,
adding valuable experience to increased care and control.

We were glad to begin the year with a new cottage, a very complete house,
through modest in cost, designed for the home of thirty of the smallest
boys. In vacating an old and small building for the new one we were able
to renovate and put in good condition a building we may sometime use as
a hospital, should such a necessity occur. Fortunately another year has
passed without sickness, no children's ailments having prevailed, a fact
we are grateful for, it is so unusual where so many children are gathered
for both home and school-life. The healthfulness of this large farm and
country area is supplemented, most carefully, with bathing facilities,
and good food.

The three schools have been governed most efficiently by Misses M. C.
Cotter, M. N. Chapman, and L. E. Burnham. The work has been persistent,
and always given proof in excellent results. At no time has the grading
been so well defined, The smallest children receiving the best of primary
course, and such Kindergarten teaching as one person can combine with it.
The family has kept to an average of one hundred and eighteen children
during the year, divided about as usual 93 boys and 25 girls. Thirty-nine
children have come to the Home, from all sources, and 59 gone from it during
the year. Six were sent to Sockanosset, and Oaklawn Schools, for reasons
which would insure advantages to them and to us. A few were returned to
their parents, and the majority placed in private homes. The moral and
material conditions of this Home are steadily improving. The supervison
by its very efficient officers, Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Risk, is careful
and all aroung thorough. The evidences are always apparent of a kindly
relation, with happiness among the cottage mothers and their children.
It is the aim to lessen the Institutional ruts and bring in the cheerful
interests of home and family life, as much as possible.

The advantages of the location of this Home are more and more in evidence.
The wide fields for out-door life insure good health, and without the interruptions
of sickness the school work is steadily productive of its purpose. Such
opportunity as we can afford to boys for farm work, under an experienced
farmer is helpful to them, if not fully educative. Perhaps a system of
teaching in farm and trades' work, is one especially needed here. Such
farming as we do pursue is profitable to the extent of supplies to the
family, with some cash sales besides, which are turned in to the State
treasury.

Very important repairs, in relaying steam and gas pipes, painting buildings,
&c., have called heavily upon our funds, and for another year the care
of the property and the maintaining a large family will require an appropiation
of twenty thousand dollars, which the Bord of Control voted December 11th,
to ask the General Assembly to set apart for its work for the ensuing year.

The greater difficulties of the work begin when we place children in
private homes. We maybecome experts in this duty, but not
until people, as a whole, attain a greater tolerance and a better purpose
in caring for both the dependent and the delinquent child.

We must repeat our assurance of a year ago:-"This Board of Control is
not satisfied to receive dependent children of the State into its Home
and School, to clothe and feed, merely, and then send them out into life,
indiscriminately." We know we are in charge of future citizens; we are
equipping them as well as we can with intelligence, in mind and heart,
and we are also seeking the proper home relations which will enlarge and
develop our beginnings.

The majority who apply for children desire service--work without pay--not
for parentage or education, as children of their own but as a spoke in
the wheel of family economy. Many times such applicants are too poor to
so increase the family, and give besides what justly belongs to a boy or
girl in the formative years of life. Such applicants "need not apply;"
we must do abetter by dependent children. Worded as carefully as our Indenture
contract is, we must hesitate to risk mortgaging a child's future to pay
for his present in food and clothes. If we shun the mercenary call, which
would take children for work and no pay (and no play, either, as we have
discovered,) we seek more earnestly the benovolent purpose of respectable
people, who will interest themselves in the all-around education and care
of the child; in farming if he prefers it; in a trade if he is better suited
to it; and certainly in the months of schooling we insist upon. A girl
can learn needlework as well as scrubbing, and when compelled to earn her
living she can make a bonnet or a dress for herself, and gain day by day,
in self-respecting independence.

We are looking for true parents of these children, foster parents, 'tis
true, and especially for the smallest children. We urge people to begin
with a five or six year old boy or girl, it so often means the renewing
of the power of Love in the home; parents often need it, but the child
far more. Loveless childhood is a vacuum that should be filled. Kind people
with good motives toward children we want to meet. Applicants come to us
so generally for the larger boys and girls , we realize the loss in opportunity,
for it is next to certainty that the smaller child can be easier won and
molded, and the bonds of his hereditary more surely broken by the environments
of love, and a firm and honest appeal

This Board is increasing its knowledge of private homes through the
visits of its Secretary. A child rarely goes to a home before his visit
and acqaintanceship with both the man and wife. The difficulties
attending "placing-out" children are all on a line with its responsibility
towards living parents. There may be one or more (rarely both) living and
we do not prefer to alienate a child from its kin if there is any likelihood
of its proper repossession. The child is sometimes the one bond needed
to keep the home and parents in a course of thrift and respectability.
And, surely, if parental love prevails it is proof of the presence of a
saving grace which society at large must have, to insure the sanctity and
purity of all home-life where people are joined "for better or worse."

No happier experience comes to us during the year than when the mother
or father is able to reclaim the two or three children which the State
has cared for kindly until the cloud has lifted, when work is plenty, or
the drink is dropped forever, and there is a home again for all, both comfortable
and happy.

The efficiency of our control of this Home we mean shall come from personal
visits, and acquaintance with its highest needs. And with the increasing
ties created by placing children in private homes comes also the responsibility
of knowing the average life of the homes. This duty we are assuming, more
and more, but the State needs at least two authorized and well paid agents
to visit towns and cities where its dependent children are living, and
report what is wrong and objectionable in the home, or its surroundings.
A man and woman could best do this work, for the "two sides" to everything
one often sees better than the other.

The State has provided a wise benevolence for dependent children, and
this Board is constantly made aware of the fact, that for every pure and
honest boy and girl we rear, the State is saved much additional pauperism
and vice, and the community gains a soul, which is a help and a stimulus
to many more.

Note. The Board hereby acknowledges, gratefully, the very
generous gifts from the Sunday School of the Union Congregational Church
of Providence, and the boxes of toys, &c., from the Bliss Manufacturing
Company of Pawtucket.

These contributions insured the larger happiness for the
children's Christmas, and this happiness was the truest gratitude we could
offer.

REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT.

_____________________

To the Board of Control:

GENTLEMEN AND LADIES:--I have the honor to present the Eleventh Annual
Report of the State Home and School for the year ending December 31, 1895.

The following is the list of the officers and emplayees:

R.B. Risk

Superintendent

Mrs. R. B. Risk

Matron

Miss M.C. Cotter

Teacher

Miss M. N. Chapman

Teacher

Miss L. E. Burnham

Teacher

Mrs. A. I. Sheldon

Manager Cottage "B."

Mrs. A. E. Etherington

Manager Cottage "C."

Mrs. M. E. Winslow

Manager Cottage "D."

Mrs. M. K. Latham

Manager Cottage "E."

Miss Annie Hall

Manager Dining Rooms

Mrs. Mary Estes

Seamstress

Miss N. A. Fisher

Seamstress

Miss Christine Nilson

Seamstress

Julias Lagerqvist

Cook

Mrs. Julias Lagerqvist

Cook

M. C. Cooley

Engineer

J. W. Risk

Carpenter

J. J. Huntington

Farmer

E. W. Lawrence

Assistant Farmer

CHILDREN

Number of children in the Home January 1, 1895

129

Number of children received from cities and
towns

35

Number of children returned from homes

12

173

Number of children placed in homes

54

Number of children returned to authorities

7

Number of children ran away

1

Number of children remaining in the Home December
31,1895

111

173

Average number for the year

117

Number of children received into the Home from
April 23, 1885, to December 31, 1895

374

Number of children placed in homes to December
31, 1895

221

Number of children returned to authorities to
December 31, 1895

20

Number of children died to December 31, 1895

5

Number of children ran away to December 31,
1895

12

Number of children sent to Reform School to
December 31, 1895

5

Number of children remaining in the Home December
31, 1895

111

374

Males received

256

Females received

118

374

SHOWING NUMBER FROM EACH CITY AND TOWN

Bristol

1

Cumberland

1

Coventry

9

Charleston

2

Cranston

15

East Providence

31

East Greenwich

2

Exeter

2

Glocester

6

Hopkinton

4

Johnston

3

Little Compton

4

Lincoln

16

Newport

8

North Kingston

2

North Providence

2

North Smithfield

1

New Shoreham

6

Providence

77

Pawtucket

33

Portsmouth

9

Richmond

1

Scituate

2

State Almshouse

99

South Kingston

3

Warren

12

Westerly

7

Warwick

9

Woonsocket

7

374

SHOWING WHERE BORN.

Rhode Island

287

Massachusetts

27

Connecticut

9

New York

5

New Jersey

1

New Hampshire

1

Pennsylvania

3

Vermont

3

Foreign

23

Unknown

15

374

SHOWING AGE WHEN COMMITTED

Two years and three months

1

Two years and six months

4

Three years old

20

Four "
"

32

Five "
"

44

Six
" "

46

Seven "
"

33

Eight "
"

44

Nine "
"

38

Ten
" "

37

Eleven "
"

30

Twelve "
"

32

Thirteen " "

12

Fourteen " "

3

374

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

Receipts.

Appropriation for 1895

$20,000.00

Receipts from farm, &c,

662.89

20,662.89

Expenditures.

Groceries and provisions

$ 2,389.42

Fish and meat

1,008.96

Fuel and lights

2,002.56

Dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes

1,764.98

Current repairs

2,243.50

Farm expenses

1,640.08

Hospital stores and services

111.86

Secretary and office

675.00

Books and stationery

177.39

Furnishing

617.63

Telephone

100.00

Water bills

160.14

Administration

76.10

Miscellaneous supplies

44.88

Salaries and wages

7,452.95

$20,465.45

Balance unexpended Dec. 31, 1895

197.44

$20,662.89

Respectfully submitted,

R. B. RISK, Superintendent.

______________

The above account agrees with the books as kept at my office.

WM. T. CRANDELL,

Secretary of the Board.

New Cottage and Cottage for Hospital.

1895
Cr.

Jan. 1. By balance of appropriation

$5,605.39

1895
Dr.

Jan. 23. H. T. Root & Sons, steam piping

$ 404.00

Thos. Phillips & Co., plumbing

689.84

A. C. J. Learned, final

2,215.00

F. J. Sawtelle, final

227.54

Feb. 7 Law & Hawxhurst, gas fixtures

36.55

Anthony & Cowill Co.

30.00

Mar. 4 Pawtucket Steam & Gas Pipe Co.

815.19

Oct. 12 O. C. Barney & Son

264.23

R. I. Concrete Co.

59.55

Dec. 31 Balance unexpended

863.49

$ 5,605.39

WM. T. CRANDELL,

Secretary of Board of Control.

December 31, 1895.

Transcribers notes: All spelling and punctuation are as in the original
book.

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